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Davies Esiro

Web developer and fitness enthusiast

Jul 27, 2020

Tips on naming your variables

Hello everyone, my name is Davies Esiro. This is my first time ever writing about programming (or anything at all😪😪) so I hope this is helpful and you also enjoy it. One of the things that gives me little-ish issues when working on a project is na...

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Your DevOps Guy

Learn to think like a software engineer | Ex SDE @amazon

Good tips! Thanks Davies Esiro

I just happen to have tweeted recently about this too. Hope you find something useful:

Good naming:

Use easy to distinguish, descriptive names

For classes -> Nouns

For methods -> Verbs

Methods that return booleans: isX or hasX -> isValidCell(...)

Use your IDE to make refactoring and renaming easier

twitter.com/CodingLanguages/status/12836636959236…

Jul 29, 2020

Bolaji Ayodeji

Software Engineer, Teacher, and Developer Advocate.

Jul 29, 2020

Amazing article, naming variables can be a pain. Thanks for sharing!

Tapas Adhikary

Educator @tapaScript | Founder CreoWis & ReactPlay - Writer - YouTuber - Open Source

Jul 28, 2020

Great tips! Truly believe, naming is not as trivial as it sounds.. Thanks for the post.

Edidiong Asikpo (Didi)

Senior Developer Advocate at Ambassador Labs